American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . aa. Pectoral fm long, slender and pointed, longer than head, reaching middle of anal. e. Gillrakers long, their ends obtuse; 44 scales in lateral line; loiigimanns, 352ee. Gillrakers short, as in E. gibbosus, 39 scales in lateral line; her OS, 354 Eiipomoiis pallidus, which has received no distinctive commonname, occurs in lowland streams from Georgia to Texas. Itappears to be rare and only a few specimens are k
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . aa. Pectoral fm long, slender and pointed, longer than head, reaching middle of anal. e. Gillrakers long, their ends obtuse; 44 scales in lateral line; loiigimanns, 352ee. Gillrakers short, as in E. gibbosus, 39 scales in lateral line; her OS, 354 Eiipomoiis pallidus, which has received no distinctive commonname, occurs in lowland streams from Georgia to Texas. Itappears to be rare and only a few specimens are known. Itreaches a length of 7 McKays Sunfish Eupomotis curyorus (McKay) This sunfish is known only from southern Michigan, northernOhio and northern Indiana. It is, preferably, an inhabitant of 351 Shell Cracker small lakes, but it has been found also in sluggish streams. InLost Lake at Maxinkuckee, Indiana, it is abundant in associationwith the bluegill. It reaches a length of 8 inches, but is oflittle value as a food or game-fish. It rarely takes the hook andis not sought by even the boy angler. It is, however, a veryinteresting and handsome fish. Colour, in spirits, mottled olive, yellowish below; top ofhead blackish; membranes of vertical fins dusky; ventrals duskywith lighter margins; pectorals pale. Shell Cracker Eiiponiotis Jiolbrooki (Cuvier & Valenciennes) The habitat of this fish extends from Virginia to Florida inall suitable lowland waters. It is particularly abundant in Floridain which State it seems to be pretty generally distributed. It reachesa length of nearly a foot and is one of the largest
Size: 1991px × 1255px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectfishes, bookyear1902
